Went to see For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf last night and it was just wonderful. It was amazing. It was all true. It was so good. It was just so good to hear it and see it and talk about it and just know that it is okay. I felt so close to all the black women up there. I felt so close to all the things they said. One talked about having an abortion and it made me cry. “This hurts me,” she said. “This hurts me.” And I just cried right there at the Alliance Theatre. And the end made me cry again. Latanya as the Lady in Red talking about her man dropping her kids out the window. It was so good and the people didn’t know what the fuck they were watching. In the bathroom afterward, one white woman said to another: “I didn’t really get offended, but I just got bored.”
Sweet Jesus! Bored? They were bored with one and a half hours of my life! Fuck ’em! Ntozake Shange might not ever do another thing, but this thing she wrote is just incredible. Go, girl! I want her to be rich and famous because she deserves it!